“What Impresses Me” By Melissa Fiorenza/Women@Work Make an impact. Go above and beyond. Color outside the lines. If you’re reading this magazine, you know all that. You already know that it’s important for you (and/or your kids, your friends, your interns, anyone you respect) to impress people at work. But the why part of that […]
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Entering the Blogosphere By Kristi Barlette/Women@Work Do you blog? There’s a good chance the answer is yes since 31 million Americans are “online authors,” according to Blogging.org. But here’s another statistic for you: 65 percent of bloggers haven’t updated their blog in the last year. Sixty-five percent. This statistic is particularly problematic if the blog […]
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By Brianna Snyder/Women@Work Towers of paper cover your desk. You can’t find the file you’re supposed to be working on. Your blinking voicemail light shows you have eight messages. And your boss just e-mailed: Something needs addressing immediately, but your to-do list runneth over and three coworkers are knocking on your door with questions about […]
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Compiled by Brianna Snyder/Women@Work Social Media Dos and Don’ts When an Arizona restaurant’s two difficult owners were featured on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, the restaurant’s Facebook page was inundated with comments mocking and taunting the owners, husband and wife Samy and Amy Bouzaglos. Furious, the two started firing back at the thousands of teasing […]
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By Anne Saile/Women@Work Have you ever thought about quitting your day job to start a business of your own? Here are some things to think about before you take the plunge. 1. Make sure that you’re leaving your job for the right reasons. I have heard so many people say that they wanted to start […]
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The Road to Great Leadership? By Janet Reynolds/Women@Work J. Keith Murnighan’s book, Do Nothing!, sounds counterintuitive: The way to become a successful leader is not to take on every detail yourself and pull your team up with you. The path to great leadership is to step back and do nothing. Now that idea may sound like […]
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Don’t You Hate It When … By Kristi Barlette/Women@Work Listen. Hear that? That clip, clip, clip from across the room? It’s your colleague two cubes over clipping his nails — again. Now take a whiff. Oh yeah. That’s tuna — and garlic. Your team leader has tuna noodle casserole leftovers for lunch — for the […]
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